In which I discuss some of the sources of and influences on The Northman and provide a kind of reading list for anyone interested in getting into these medieval traditions. Books discussed from Old Norse-Icelandic, Old English, and Middle English.

0:00 Introduction
2:12 The Poetic Edda
3:53 fornaldarsögur
8:41 Íslendingasögur
17:05 Heimskringla
18:18 Beowulf
20:23 Havelok the Dane
22:26 Academic books

Texts mentioned with my affiliate link to the edition/translation I recommend:
Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Danorum ([ Ссылка ])
The Poetic Edda ([ Ссылка ])
Völsunga saga ([ Ссылка ]. @JacksonCrawford also has a translation of Völsunga saga alongside Ragnars saga loðbrókar here: [ Ссылка ]. I haven't read this translation, but I'm sure it's great!)
Hrólfs saga kraka ([ Ссылка ])
Gísla saga Súrssonar ([ Ссылка ])
Egils saga ([ Ссылка ])
Grettis saga ([ Ссылка ])
Hallfreðar saga vandræðaskálds ([ Ссылка ])
Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu ([ Ссылка ])
Kormáks saga ([ Ссылка ])
Bjarnar saga Hítdælakappa ([ Ссылка ])
Víglundar saga ([ Ссылка ])
Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla ([ Ссылка ])
Beowulf ([ Ссылка ])
Havelok the Dane (The other Romances in this volume are also pretty interesting - King Horn is a personal favorite!: [ Ссылка ]. Online for free at: [ Ссылка ])

Scholarship:
Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings ([ Ссылка ])
Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir, Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World ([ Ссылка ])
Tom Shippey, Laughing Shall I Die: Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings ([ Ссылка ])
Thomas A. DuBois, Nordic Religions in the Viking Age ([ Ссылка ])
Christopher Abram, Myths of the Pagan North ([ Ссылка ])
Jesse Byock, Feud in the Icelandic Saga ([ Ссылка ])
Jesse Byock, Viking Age Iceland ([ Ссылка ])
William Ian Miller, Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland ([ Ссылка ])

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